Wired magazine recently released a fascinating report, which names the biggest winners, in terms of popularity, (or losers, in terms of revenue) of 2007. The report which was based on statistics that Wired staffers grabbed by monitoring and probing peer-to-peer (p2p) networks, detailed the top songs, movies, tv shows, and artists of the year.

Some may notes that Radiohead was absent from this list. While their album, In Rainbows, released as a choose-your-price download made a big splash in terms of a statement, even its relatively strong downloads of a couple million were not enough to compare to the massive p2p traffic for the year.

For the movies, the following items topped the list:
1. Resident Evil: Extinction
2. Pirates of The Caribbean: At World's End
3. I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
4. Ratatouille
5. Superbad
6. Beowulf
7. Transformers
8. American Gangster
9. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
10. Stardust

The only possible surprise here is that Pirates 3 was not the most pirated movie!

This lists adds an interesting perspective when looking at the NBC/iTunes drama. It illustrates the runaway success of NBC's heroes and how much of a hit Apple will take if NBC decides to eventually sever its month to month contract. However, it also shows that most of the rest of the top content is on Fox and ABC, so iTunes may be able to get by with just these offerings.